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Assignment 2- Macronutrient Intake

This assignment builds on your first assignment. We are going to investigate the food you ate in greater detail focusing on nutrition labeling and the macro-nutrients you have learned about in the last few weeks. For this assignment, you will complete the attached worksheet using your food record and your Food Details Report from Assignment 1.

Complete the worksheet. Answer the questions using your food record and Food Details Report from Assignment 1. Save the completed file with your name in the file title. When you are done, upload the file into the assignment area

Assignment 2 Worksheet

For this Assignment, you will use your food record and Food Group and Nutrient Reports from Assignment 1.

Part I. Sources of your food selections:

Use your food record from Assignment 1 to answer the following questions.

1) How many foods were processed? A process food is packaged by a manufacturer, for example cracker, cereal, chips, rice mixes, soups frozen dinners, etc. Processed foods have a Nutrition Facts label.

2) How many foods did you prepare and/or cook? Examples of these types of foods are homemade lasagna, plain cooked pork chops, and cooked vegetables.

3) How many foods were not prepared or processed? Examples of these types of foods would be milk, orange, banana, raw vegetables, salad (dressing would be processed), etc.

4) How many foods were prepared by somebody else, for example at a restaurant?

5) What percent of the foods you ate were processed, prepared by you or someone else, orunprocessed/unprepared?

Write a short reviewof what you have learned about your diet in Part I. It must be at least 200 words long.

Part II. Reading Food Labels.

1) Select one processed foods from your Assignment 1 food record that contains more than five ingredients. If you did not eat a processed food with more than five ingredients, select one that was not on your food record. Fill in the Nutrition Facts Label below for that product.

2) List the ingredients.

3) Which ingredients are food additives? What is their function?(If you need more lines, then hit the tab button on at the end of the last line.)

Food Additives Function

4) Does your product make any nutrient claims? If so, which one? You can use this source to help you or your textbook. The file is also available under Resources.

5) Summarize what you have learned. It must be at least 200 words long.

Part III. Carbohydrate and Lipid Content of Your Diet

1) Carbohydrate Content

What type of carbohydrate did you eat? In the table below, list the foods you ate from your diet analysis in Assignment 1, thento identify the kind of carbohydrate each food contains. Remember, there are simple and complex carbohydrates present in your diet. Use your textbook for guidanceon the types of sweetener present in the foods you ate and to help you to determine the kind of carbohydrate, for example, glucose, fructose,etc. A food item may contain more than one type of carbohydrate.

(If you need more lines, then hit the tab button on your computer keyboard at the end of the table's last line.)

Food Item Type of Carbohydrate

2) Lipid Content

What type of lipid did you eat? In the table below, list the foods you ate from your diet analysis in Assignment 1, then identify the type of lipid each food contains. Use your textbook to help guide you. A particularfood may include more than one kind of fat. (If you need more lines, then hit the tab button on your computer keyboard at the end of the table's last line.)

Food Item Type of Lipid

3) Summarize what you learned below in Part III. It must be 200 words long.

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